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Jellied Meat

A dish of ground meat set in its own cooked broth, optionally with hard boiled eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Jellied Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the soup bone with salt and pepper until very tender.

  2. Remove the meat from the bone and grind it coarsely.

Make the jelly and serve

  1. Let the cooking liquid cool and remove all grease.

  2. Pour the cooled liquid over the ground meat.

  3. Add hard boiled eggs if desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Soup bone
Its collagen breaks down into gelatin in the cooking liquid, which sets as it cools and firms the dish.

The step that matters

Let the cooking liquid cool and remove all grease.. Fat floats on the hot liquid and would leave a greasy layer and cloud the surface, interfering with a clean, firm set as the gelatin cools.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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